Eine Zukunftsaufgabe in guten Händen

Welcome at the Isle of Vilm

High Nature Value Farmland in Europe

Workshop at the International Academy for Nature Conservation Isle of Vilm

June 14-18, 2010

Organized by:

Participants from 18 European countries

Welcome at the Isle of Vilm

1. Location of Vilm Island

2. Impressions to the excursionregion „Rügen“

3.Remark to high nature valuefarmland

Eine Zukunftsaufgabe in guten HändenThe International Academy

for Nature Conservation Isle of Vilm (INA)

(founded 1990)

Isle of Vilm (94 ha): Nature Reserve (1936) in the Biosphere Reserve South-East Rügen (1990)

Vilm

Bonn

Leipzig

Geographical location of Vilm:marginal in Germany – but ...

Hamburg

Berlin

In Mecklenburg-VorpommernIn the Baltic Seanear Rügen3 hours from Schwerin4 hours from Berlin4 hours from Hamburg

9 hours from Bonn

Schwerin

Central in Europe

The Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

Federal Agency for Nature ConservationDepartment Isle of Vilm

Department I 3: Isle of VilmDirector: Prof. Dr. Hans D. Knapp, Dir.u.Prof.

AdministrationFerry service

Technical service

Section I 3.1Biological Diversity

Head:Dr. Horst Korn, W Dir.

Sectiont I 3.2Marine and CoastalNature Conservation

Head:Dr. Henning von Nordheim

W Dir.

SectionI 3.3Internationale Academy for Nature Conservation

Head:Gisela Stolpe

Reception, kitchen, service

President

Division I: Ecology & Conservation

Staff: about 58 people

Bonn

Welcome at the Isle of Vilm

1. Location of Vilm Island

2. Impressions to the excursionregion „Rügen“

3.Remark to high nature valuefarmland

Rügen

Rügen Island –Topograpy

161 m above sea level

51,4 km

Coast line: ca. 580kmSize: 962 km²

51,4 km

42,8 km

51,4 km

Rügen – Natural heritage:Chalk cliffs of Jasmund

C. D. Friedrich,Kreidefelsen auf Rügen (1822)

Rügen –

Natural and Cultural Heritage

13.000 B.P.

6.000 B.P.

4.000 B.P.

Landscape history

Costal erosion and...

deposition

Rügen – Cultural heritage: megalithic monuments

National park

Vorpommersche Boddenlandschaft

total:80.500 ha (15% land)

Rügen:

2.505 + 1.532 ha = 4.037 ha

National park Jasmund

2.430/600 ha = 3.030 ha

Biosphere reserve South-East Rügen

Insel Vilm

Welcome at the Isle of Vilm

1. Location of Vilm Island

2. Impressions to the excursionregion „Rügen“

3.Remark to high nature valuefarmland

Europe – a forest continent

Ancient historyNeolithicum and Megalithic culture

Ursprung>8.000 B.P.8.000-7.000 B.P.7.000-6.000 B.P.6.000-5.000 B.P.< 5.000 B.P.

Ancient historyMegalithic monuments (South Sweden, Moen, Rügen)

Change to Cultural landscapes

Periods and times of landscape history

I) 7.000 Jahre Naturlandschaft seit Rückzug der GletscherII) 4.000 Jahre frühgeschichtliche KulturlandschaftIII) 1.000 Jahre vorindustrielle KulturlandschaftIV) 100 Jahre industrielle KulturlandschaftV) 50 Jahre agrar-industrieller Produktionsraum

Wende zur Nachhaltigkeit (?)

v. Chr. n. Chr.8.000 7.000 6.000 5.000 4.000 3.000 2.000 1.000 0 1.000 2.000

I II III IV

V

Thank you very much,and have a nice stay at Vilm